TY - BOOK ID - 5180780 TI - The evolution of highland Papua New Guinea societies. PY - 1987 SN - 0521334233 0521131758 1139084992 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Ethnology KW - Anthropologie sociale et culturelle KW - Papua New Guinea KW - Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée KW - Social life and customs KW - Moeurs et coutumes KW - Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée KW - Social Sciences KW - Anthropology KW - Social life and customs. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5180780 AB - This book is an explicitly comparative, anthropological analysis of the societies of the eastern and western highlands of Papua New Guinea. Particular societies have been documented by anthropologists since the 1950s yet until this book's publication in 1987, there had been relatively few attempts at rigourous comparison of the findings. This book argues that the highlands cannot be treated as a homogeneous region, socially, culturally, historically or environmentally. Rather, societies of the eastern highlands have followed markedly different paths of development in the past to those of the western highlands, and it is upon this divergence that a comparative treatment of the twentieth century should be mounted. ER -